Terry Griffin

Farm Management, Cropping Systems, Precision Agriculture

Associate Professor 
Kansas State University

Terry Griffin’s research and extension programs focus on cropping systems economics in general, and specifically precision agricultural technologies and big data. Precision ag data in a community has evolved Terry’s program to include ‘big data’ specifically the automation of economic decision making tools. Current projects include farm management decision making under weather uncertainty, profitable automated variable rate irrigation applications, valuation of precision agriculture data, and farmland values.

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Documents & Presentations by Terry Griffin
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Role of Utility Sized Tractors in Commercial Agricultural Operations February 12, 2018
Precision Agriculture Conference

Precision agricultural engineer Ajay Sharda and precision agricultural economist Terry Griffin of K-State look ahead to the 2018 Kansas Agricultural Technologies Conference being co-hosted by K-State in two weeks. They'll visit about several of the up-and-coming technologies that will be discussed in full at this conference, encouraging all interested producers to attend.

January 5, 2018
Tax Basis Tool

K-State agricultural economist Terry Griffin and Texas A&M agricultural law specialist Tiffany Lashmet talk about the new on-line aid that they have created for agricultural producers to use when determining the capital gains tax liability of a land sale, especially when the value of that land upon inheritance is unknown. They developed a series of tables for each of the continental 48 states that producers can use to calculate an estimate of the stepped-up basis for their property.

December 7, 2017
Kansas Farm Adoption of Embodied Knowledge and Information Intensive Precision Agriculture Technology Bundles December 7, 2017
Estimating Tax Liability Using Stepped Up Basis November 30, 2017
Precision Technology Adoption

K-State precision technology economist Terry Griffin shares the findings of his latest study of farmer adoption of precision cropping technologies...this time, his work concentrated on the technology "bundles" that producers gravitate toward, and how that relates to the frequency that producers transition to variable-rate technologies. 

November 28, 2017
Precision Ag Adoption

K-State precision agriculture economist Terry Griffin reports on his new study of how quickly farmers adopt new precision cropping technology, based on a survey of Kansas Farm Management Association members. It suggests that the sooner producers employ new technology, the more inclined they are to adopt the next technological advance. 

October 4, 2017
How Long Does It Typically Take Before Farmers Adopt New Technologies? September 28, 2017
Farm Data Ownership

K-State precision agricultural economist Terry Griffin discusses some of the current thinking on the ownership of farm data, and whether producers would be wise to "go off the grid" with their data. He maintains that the value of that data diminishes greatly by isolating it in an attempt to keep it private.

September 28, 2017
Is Going Off the Grid Possible in the Age of Farm Data? September 27, 2017